At its spring meeting, the Association’s Research Division selected twenty-two individuals to receive grants for further research in the history of the Western hemisphere.
Previously, Beveridge grants were limited to research in American history, but to conform with the coverage of the Albert J. Beveridge Award for books in American, Canadian and Latin American history, the division proposed, and Council approved, that the grants be offered for research in the history of the Western hemisphere. Also approved by the Council was a Littleton-Griswold grants-in-aid program to be administered by the division along with the Beveridge grants. It is expected that the new Littleton-Griswold grants for research in US legal history will help alleviate the increasing number of applications for Beveridge grants. The number of Littleton-Griswold grants awarded each year will depend on the balance of income from the fund after other continuing obligations are met.
The following AHA members, and their proposed research projects, were selected from the seventy-two applications reviewed: Littleton Griswold Grant: Sherri Broder (Brown University), Politics of the Family: Gender, Class, and the State in Gilded Age Philadelphia. Beveridge Grants: Charles W. Calhoun (Austin Peay State University), The Ideology of the Republican Party in the Gilded Age; Sally H. Clarke (Brown University), Farmers as Entrepreneurs: Risk, Regulation, and Technological Change, 1920-1960; Michael L. Conniff (University of New Mexico), The Political Elite of Brazil, 1900-1985; Lawrence J. Friedman (Bowling Green State University), Errand into the Hinterland: A History of the Menninger Clinic-Foundation, 1919-1967; Henry E. Fritz (St. Olaf College), A History of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 1869-1933; David Glassberg (Temple University), An Iconographic Analysis of Photographs Depicting Public Reenactments of Local and National History in the United States, 1876-1940; Mary McDougall Gordon (University of Santa Clara), American Radical: William English Walling; David A. Johnson (Portland State University), Politics, Ideology, and the Passing of Frontier Society: The Far Western United States; Thomas M. Leonard (University of North Florida), The United States and Central America, 1952-1972; Linda Lewin (University of California, Berkeley), A Social History of Brazilian Family Law from Empire to Republic; Timothy R. Mahoney (Washington, DC), Urban History in a Regional Context: River Towns on the Upper Mississippi, 1840-1860; Randall M. Miller (Saint Joseph’s University), Irish Immigrants in the South; Thomas J. Misa (University of Pennsylvania), The Science and Technology of Steelmaking in America, 1870-1920; Anna K. Nelson (George Washington University), American Foreign Policy During the Eisenhower Administration, 1953-1960; James Reed (Rutgers University), Robert M. Yerkes and the Rise of Behavioral Science; Robert W. Righter (University of Wyoming), Wind Energy in America: A History; Priscilla Roberts (University of Hong Kong), A Monograph on the New York Investment Bank, Kuhn, Loeb & Company; Steven Rosswurm (Lake Forest College), Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Philadelphia Committee of Privates and the Making of the New Nation, 1740-1860; Glen F. Sheffield (University of Connecticut), The Politics of Foreign Aid: The Peace Corps in Peru, 1962-1968; Laurence Shore (Queens University), Bringing Down the Cotton Curtin: The Mind of White Southerners, 1932-1976; William V. Trollinger (School of the Ozarks), Religious Fundamentalism in the Upper Midwest.
For the guidance of future divisions, the Research Division agreed to adopt the following provision in the Beveridge Grants guidelines: “Preference will be given to project proposals where Beveridge Grants clearly will aid in completing a project or completing a discrete segment of a project.” Future applicants please note.
The funds for this program come from the earnings of the Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund. Only members of the Association are eligible, regardless of their occupations. In formation and application forms can be obtained from the office of the executive director at the American Historical Association, 400 A St. SE, Washington, DC 20003. The deadline for the next competition is February 1, 1986.
